🧂 To add salt 🥩 To preserve with salt

to salinize

7.2

To make soil or water salty, often by adding salt

verb
/ˈseɪlɪnaɪz/

Specialized

: salinizar

The scientific approach to fruit production applied early by these companies reveals that the humid eutrophic soils on the floodplain are oversaturated and tend to salinize after being plowed.

Examples

Over time, excessive watering practices can salinize agricultural land, making it less fertile.
Farmers have to be careful not to salinize the soil, as too much salt can harm their crops.
They pump seawater to these upland ponds, salinizing the soil and the groundwater.

Academic text (1996)
The runoff from the irrigation system began to salinize the nearby streams, affecting the local fish population.

Synonyms

to salt

vsto salinize

31 1.0

To put small white crystals on food to make it taste better or last longer

is about raising minerals in soil or water rather than food use

to salinate

vsto salinize

Specialized

1 7.2

To make something salty by adding salt

applies to environmental cases like soil or water rather than lab samples

to salten

vsto salinize

Archaic

9.9

To add salt to food, often to preserve or flavor it

focuses on increasing minerals in soil or water, not food preservation

Antonyms

to desalinize

Specialized

6.8

To remove salt from water so it is safe to drink

How Salty

to brine

8 4.8

to salinize

Specialized

7.2

to salt

31 1.0

Surface Forms

salinize infinitive

salinized past

salinized past participle

salinizing present participle

salinizes third person singular

Morphology

salinize = saline (transparent) = salin + ize

The transformation from 'saline' to 'salinize' is clear, indicating the process of making something salty.

Etymology

Salinize comes from the Latin root sal, meaning 'salt', the same root you see in salt and saline. So, to salinize land or water is to 'make it salty', which explains why salinized soil can harm plant growth.